St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-16
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Favorite Drinks---What History
Shows of the Triples of Poets,
Warriors and Statesmen.
Perhaps one might theoriZe about
character from favOrite drinks as much
as from "palmistry" or handwriting,
says the London Telegraph. Let us
see.
Napoleon had the heart, if ever man
had, of a despOt. He drank strong
black coffee. the sultan's drink, and
Chambertin the rich wine of princes.
Cromwell and George of Clarence
were both ambitious, with very opposite
endingS. Both loved MalmSey, which
tradition asserts drowned the latter i'll
the Jewel tower.
Richelieu, the cold, crafty, calculat-
ing cardinal, loved the thin red wine of
Medoc.
The magnificent and high-spirited
monarchs, Henry VIII. and Francis of
France, loved what Falstatf holds to be
so inspiriting-namely, "a good Sherris
sack"
Edmund Kean's cratic magnificent
genius and mad career were nOuriShed
on brandy, which was. indeed, life to
the unhappy tragedian. Doran tells us
that after his return, utterly broken, in
1927, only constant glasses of ''brOwn
brandy. very hot and very strong," en-
abled him to get through his scenes.
Addison's polished eQuable essays
were written on moderate rotations Of
excellent claret.
Charles Lamb, most perennially
charming of essayists, was a thorough
LondOner in heart, and his favorite
drink was genuine London porter.
md rl,o {a1 &l,a
older order of things, both loved porter.
of which the chancellor could drink
three bottles.
Peter the Great was genius and
equally barbarian, with fiery tenn
per and an unbridled will. We are not
surprised, speaking as theOriSt, to find
that his favorite beverage was brandy
with pepper.
King John was an unbridled and
fiercely cruel tyrant. And if, as q. r.
Sims says in one of his graphic sketches,
mans diSordered liver
CAN MAKE HIM A FIEND,
what wonder? For King John loved
draughts of new ale, surfeit of which,
with peaches, is supposed to have led to
his death.
DR.. johnson was strange mixture of
Toryism of the ancient eighteenth cen
tury School-brOad and many-lined
knowledge of goodness of heart and life
and great nervousness. He loved in
moderation punch and port wine, and
by his own description was "a hardened
and shameless tea-drinker, whose kettle
had seldom time to COOL"
One cannot theoriZe about Person, the
famous Greek scholar, who, it is said,
could cap from memory any line
quoted from the three Greek tragedians,
Eschuylus, SOphocles or Euripides, for
he drank anything. Indeed, it is said,
in lady's absence with the keys, he
vowed, much to her husbands annoy
ance, that she had a private bottle of
spirits, and, rummaging about found
one. still more to his friends annoyance.
of which he drank the contents. He
left on the lady'S return. Her husband,
having mentioned this in a veXed man
ner, she said, 'Good heavens! 1t was
the bottle of spirit for the lamp"
Sir Ashley Cooper, the great surgeon,
who in 1915 received during the various
months of the year e21 ZOO in fees, and
who, Shaving at his profession twelve
hours daily, said he could digest any
thing but "SawduSt," drank two tum-
blerS of water at dinner and two glasses
never exceeding them-of port wine
afterward.
Talleyrand'S cold and discriminating
nature was summed up in his advice to
his subordinates, "AbOve all, no zeal!''
His favOrite potation was claret in mod
crate glasses.
Henri Quatre, Frances favorite mon
arch, whose chivalrOus memory even the
fierce republican mobS of 1892 at first re-
spected, loved the wines of Surennes,
and never, as a rule, drank anything
else.
Byron was fond of two very different
rotations, which, perhaps, one might
fancifully say, were typical of his two
styles of poetry-one was hook and soda
water, then very new beverage in
England; the other was gin and water.
Frederick the Great, like good many
other persons, had a particular affection
for Tokay.
Rubens had the strange taste to es-
TEEN Marsha the finest of wines.